After Taoist Bodhi refined his true form, he went to Taixuan Daze to contact Zhou Xiao and went together to find the Shenmu tribe.
The Shenmu Clan is one of the thirteen clans of the Demon Clan. Zhicao, Lingshen, Qionghua and other elixirs are not sacred trees.
Only the tree elves who have gained enlightenment over the millennium belong to the sacred tree clan. However, the Shenmu clan likes the sun and hates the shade, and does not want to live underground for a long time. Therefore, they are among the few spirits that live on the earth among the demon clan forces.
Right now, Taoist Bodhi and Zhou Xiao's destination is the ancient forest sea in the east.
As the saying goes, "hiding trees in the forest", if you want to hide the traces of tree spirits, there is no one more suitable than Lin Hai.
"We're almost there, please cover up."
Zhou Xiao shook his head and said, "Be careful what you say. Remember, just call me 'Brother Taoist' and don't cheat." "
As he spoke, he took out the black and white flag and lightly swept it over his body, which immediately gave him a surge of vitality.
Taixuanzong advocated "yin and yang" and believed that all changes in the world are due to the corresponding effects of yin and yang. Yin and yang go back and forth, when yin retreats, yang advances, when yang disappears, yin appears, complementing each other, and biochemistry is endless.
From this concept, monks in Taixuan Taoism will choose a pair of interacting Tao, such as light and darkness, life and death, movement and stillness.
Zhou Xiao re-cultivated the golden elixir and took "the existence and non-existence of positive and negative" as the rule. Just because it exists, it becomes the "Millennium Mantra Milo Banner". Instead, it becomes nothing and becomes a "pure world away from dust flags".
The two black and white flags determine the principle of yin and yang, which can reverse the true energy in Zhou Xiao's body and simulate the yang and anger.
Taoist Bodhi looked at Zhou Xiao with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Brother Taoist, what do you think of the "principle of movement and stillness"? "
"Movement and stillness are intertwined, which is the basis of all changes. I have an uncle who practices according to this principle."
Seeing Henghua smiling and saying nothing, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Why, what do you think you have?"
"Brother Tao, I forgot, I am Bodhi right now."
Zhou Xiao smiled and bowed deeply: "So, what do you have to say, Brother Bodhi?"
"It's not about giving advice, but Taixuanzong's principle of yin and yang of movement and stillness is that what is still is still and moves, not immovable.
"When Tai Chi moves, it produces Yang, and movement produces movement; when it is still, it produces Yin, and movement produces stillness."
The "quietness" of Taixuanzong is just the root of movement, and it is a precondition for the changes in the movement of yin and yang in Tai Chi. It is to be still for the next time.
Zhou Xiao looked at Taoist Bodhi in confusion.
"So, this is how the way of tranquility should be? Movement and tranquility are mutually rooted, opposite and indivisible. There is neither absolute tranquility nor absolute movement."
"But if there is a Dharma that advocates absolute tranquility, it will defeat Taixuan Tianshu." Taoist Bodhi said with an incomprehensible expression.
"Is there such a way?" Zhou Xiao smiled.
He is also a magician and knows the principles of how the exercises work.
Fu Henghua's so-called "quiet practice" and "dream practice" also require the movement of true energy. It is pure and still, and the true energy does not change at all, so how to practice?
"Your boy, Brother Bodhi, has recently gained enlightenment and gone crazy, right? Even these tree elves keep silent all day long. In fact, they are also growing in the dark, and they are not absolutely static."
Wood spirit meditation corresponds to animal spirits, but it does not mean that they are absolutely static existences.
"Obsessed? Maybe." Taoist Bodhi thought silently in his heart, the one who really went crazy is your master!
Movement is yang and life occurs, silence is yin and death occurs.
Absolute stillness, life no longer moves, the spirit no longer thinks, and there is no change. Isn't that absolute death?
It just so happened that Fu Henghua knew a heavenly book with such a concept.
Looking at Zhou Xiao, Bodhicitta said: You have absolutely no idea what evil things your master was doing in Liusha River. I suspect that his subsequent death was caused by this heavenly book.
Fu Henghua was very taboo about the "Book of Death" and believed that this book was aimed at his "Book of Creation".
But when I came to Yizhou, I met Yang Dai and saw the ruins of Taixuan Daze with my own eyes. Fu Henghua can confirm that "Yitian Bajishu" and "Taixuan Tianshu" are also restrained by the Jingming method of "Death and Darkness Tianshu". Maybe more
Counting the "Taiyin Heavenly Book", "Xuanming Zhence" and the "Hunyuan Golden Chapter" that have long been fragmented.
What is the Book of Heaven?
When the Immortal Jue of the Earth Code intercepted a link from all the phenomena of heaven and earth for his own use, the descendants of the Heavenly Book formed the Tao embryo in their bodies and constructed a world system independent of heaven and earth.
My body is heaven and earth, my body is the great road.
This is the idea that exists in every heavenly book. The difference lies in the core principle of each "World of Heavenly Book".
The Lunar Book simulates its core world as a moon.
The rise and fall of the Taiyin cycle is the law of its practice.
By analogy, since the moon can be regarded as a world, so can the sun and stars. Therefore, the three lights of the sun, moon, and stars should possess the Way of the Heavenly Book.
The Baji Book of Yi Tian believes that the world is changing, and everything changes among the eight trigrams. Everything is the way of change, and change is change, which is consistent with the concept of "Tai Xuan Tian Shu".
"Tai Xuan Tian Shu" believes that the world is composed of yin and yang, and is constantly moving between yin and yang. When the movement stops, it is not death, but saving for the next movement and new life.
This concept is very similar to "The Creation Hui Yuan Gong". Fu Henghua's Heavenly Book simulates the reincarnation of heaven and earth. Each reincarnation of the world is a mortal's one year of life, experiencing birth, old age, illness, and death.
The Book of Creation does not exclude death, but incorporates death into the concept of creation. Between the reincarnation of heaven and earth there are spring, summer, autumn and winter, birth, illness and death.
After death in heaven and earth, it will immediately enter the next reincarnation and complete the growth of one year old.
The reason why Henghua admitted that "The Heavenly Book of Creation" was derived from the "Taixuan Heavenly Book" was that the two had similar understandings of life and death. The "Yin Jing" in Taixuan Tianshu is defined as winter. Isn’t it all about keeping silent for winter and for the coming year’s yang energy and spring hair?
Take a look at all the ways of the heavenly book that Fu Henghua either mastered or conceived.
The principles of the Book of Heaven are a theoretically self-consistent worldview. All laws in the world are contained in the Tao of the Book of Heaven. Death, of course, is no exception.
The twilight of the moon, the dusk of the sun, the collapse and rebirth of the stars.
The life and death of all phenomena in Yi Dao, the mutual rotation of yin and yang in Taixuan, and the cycle of reincarnation in one year of creation.
The transformation of the five elements, the transformation of one talisman of the heavenly talisman into all things, and the nine transformations of the Eight-nine Mysterious Techniques.
Being above death is the core requirement that every heavenly book must achieve.
But "Book of Death" is different.
What it calls the Tao, its final death, is absolute stillness.
A world that is dead and no longer in motion.
The principles of the heavenly book it recognizes are not the movement of the world, but the corpse of the world.
No matter how the world moves and changes, whether the sun and the moon rise and fall, or the four seasons of spring and autumn, it will eventually die and move towards absolute chaos and death.
The teachings of this heavenly book can kill other descendants of the heavenly book and cut off the possibility of the world's rebirth.
The same, as Zhou Xiao said.
If practice enters a state of absolute stillness, is it still called practice?
Cultivation and action are all methods of movement.
To the end of cultivation, you will become a being whose great path never changes, and whose self never moves or thinks. Isn’t the direction of practicing this heavenly book to kill oneself completely?
An inexplicable thought occurred to Bodhi.
Perhaps, the founder of the Xuanwei Sect has already attained enlightenment!
Cross the realm of immortals and touch the coveted Taoist fruits.
However, his Heavenly Book Dao Fruit is nothing but death.
"This book is full of paradoxes and cannot be practiced at all."
But if someone practices according to the "Book of Death". During the course of cultivation, he cultivated the Dao Light of Death and defeated a group of successors of the Heavenly Book.
Looking back, let me find an opportunity to destroy that thing at the bottom of the quicksand river! I believe other descendants of the Heavenly Book will support it after learning about it, right?
While Taoist Bodhi was thinking about it, the two of them came to the edge of the forest sea.
The vast blue ocean is filled with the thick and vast aura of blue trees.
It is obviously a vitality, but it makes people feel like the majesty of mountains and the magnificence of rivers.
Zhou Xiao sighed:
"The wood spirits practicing here must be tree kings and wood ancestors."
Taoist Bodhi gently shook the wonderful tree in his hand, and the energy of the blue tree turned into two green dragons at his feet, carrying him into the forest.
Zhou Xiao followed suit and used wood energy to enchant a green luan and ride it into the forest.
Giant trees rise from the ground, towering into the sky and covering the clouds.
Flying over the forest at low altitude, you can feel a different kind of tranquility in the quiet forest.
It was just Taoist Bodhi who was meditating on the "Book of Death and Death". When he saw this peaceful and quiet natural forest, he couldn't help but feel a sense of horror.
"Wait a minute, there aren't even any birds chirping here?"
"Lin Hai, even if there are no birds, there should be animals, no, are they insects?"
The two looked at each other and noticed the strangeness of this forest sea.
Here, it seems to be a pure world of wood, with no life other than trees.
"Is it because of the struggle and estrangement within the demon clan?"
After Zhou Xiao thought about it, he immediately called the door.
"The poor Taoist Zhou Xiao, a disciple of the Xuanwei sect of the Taixuan Taoist lineage, came here to ask for an audience with King Lin Haishu."
"The poor Taoist Bodhisattva is a casual cultivator who practices in the Fangcun Mountain of Lingtai and the Three Stars Cave in the Xianyue."
The two of them urged the method, but soon after their voices were heard in Lin Hai, they disappeared on their own.
The method of silence.
The Bodhi Taoist murmured in his heart. Could it be that there is also an expert here who has understood "absolute stillness"? Isn't this courting death?
Wait, he's not really dead, is he?
The Taoist reacted instantly, stamped his feet on the green dragon, and pulled Zhou Xiao straight into the depths of the forest.
In the outer forest sea, you can still see some small saplings under the big trees. But the further you go, the trees are all more than a thousand years old.
Human faces emerged from the tree trunks, each one old and twisted.
Zhou Xiao was shocked and said: "There are so many tree spirits, the Shenmu clan is extraordinary in strength - wait, why are they all sleeping?"
"You're not sleeping, are you about to die?"
Taoist Bodhi murmured: "The spell of absolute stillness. Sorry, the first sacred tree king you and I found is actually an expert equal to Patriarch Xuanwei?"
"Master? What does this have to do with Master?"
Taoist Bodhi shook his head and smiled bitterly, and only said: "If Patriarch Xuanwei comprehended the Jingming Dharma in the Tribulation Immortal Realm, then the Tree King here should also be in the corresponding realm, or even a higher realm, in order to have contact with it? In other words, the old man here should be able to have contact with it, right? The Tree King may be beyond our imagination, it is a wood spirit that is about to fall - maybe, it is already dead."
The two of them went straight to the middle of the forest.
It was a dead zone a hundred feet in diameter.
The thick dead air turned the soil into black grey. As for the old tree spirits on the edge of the dead zone, their branches and leaves fell off one by one, leaving only the bare old branches lingering.
In the center of the dead zone, there are only old piles and towering ash piles.
Seeing the ashes, Zhou Xiao suddenly thought of something familiar.
"quicksand?"
The dead sand in the Liusha River at the bottom of Yuting Mountain?
